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From: "Richard Adamson" <fishy DOT nun AT virgin DOT net>
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Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 20:49:44 +0100
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Subject: Re: multitasking gives blank screen
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Sorted! Everything works! I am baffled, but happy :-)
  Ive been fiddling with the utilities you sent whenever Ive 
had a chance, and I started to get strange results--taskmgr
worked perfectly on some (rare) occasions, otherwise not at 
all. What it came down to was that once or twice I had run the
_TASKMGR utility *before* installing TASKMGR, by mistake, and 
(getting an error message) then installed TASKMGR. On these 
occasions, it worked (even the hot keys / menu--I didnt find 
this out straight away because I wasnt experimenting with them 
anymore.)
  So now, with _TASKMGR in autoexec before TASKMGR, everything
works. And it *is* doing two things at once eg pkunzipping in 
background. (I havent got much installed yet to test...)

If this seems doubtful to you, please be assured--I dont know
much about computers but I have been methodical and careful, 
and thats how it is.

Im extremely grateful for your help, and of course, if you want
me to experiment or try specific tests to satisfy any curiosity
you have about this, Im at your service.

Thanks also for the configuration tips, and keyboard driver.
havent had time to implement them yet, but Im working through
them to try to understand them. Id always intended to try the 
freekeyb driver--the MS-DOS thing was only a temporary fix 
while I was trying to get the system working.

On 26 Jun 01, at 20:40, Matthias Paul wrote:

> Hi Richard,
> 
> Please find attached some utilities to list TASKMGR task
> from the command line. They should be self-explanatory.
> I would be interested if they list the tasks correctly,
> even if the TASKMGR menu does not work. You may also
> be able to work around the menu problem by unregistering
> it (/R:0 IIRC), and then switch tasks using these utilities.

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